#Beingaleader means you need to have and utilize soft skills. Those skills that distinguish you from others with the same technical skills and training that you have. The hard skills needed for a particular position change with technology and time. For example a hard skill for an electrician is to know the basics of electricity and wiring. For an assistant, it might be typing or using Excel. These are all important and necessary to do your job. But they are not enough.
If you need to update your hard skills as time goes by, those you can add to or change with a bit of on-the-side training, if needed. But soft skills only come with experience and intentionality. Things like leadership, communication, problem solving, teamwork, etc. Those come from dedication and patience and often from the hard knocks of life.
They come from focus and intentionality. And they are skills. Things you can learn. If you want to, that is. Many people do not appear to want to learn these important skills. They continue to rely on their hard skills or technical ability and refuse to learn the soft skills needed to grow and maintain those around them. These folks will never become great leaders. They might have leadership thrust upon them but they will not really be leading successfully.
But if you’re here, you want more. You want to be a better leader. You want to and need to learn these soft skills. Read about them. Hear about them. Then implement them. Try them out. Make mistakes and then do better next time. Communicate better in the next text. Send a thank you when appropriate. Elevate a team member when they’ve done something well. Get better at the soft skills. They are as important and often more important than the hard skills you went to school to get.
#Beingaleader means you need to have and utilize soft skills. Get better at them.
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